307: Getting Comfortable with the Uncomfortable and Beginning Again After Loss to Find the Beauty in the Broken Spaces of your Life | with Tanya Smith of A Widow’s World

Today my friends I am so honored to reshare a story from the LifeBeats Library,  Dawnbreaker Tanya Smith of A Widow’s World and Addelise Inc is a remarried widow and mother of 2 with a passion for not only supporting widows in their journey of healing, but also to help other women entrepreneurs reach their full potential and see that you can find beauty in the broken spaces of your life.  Tanya shares her story of an unraveling family life in a small midwest town that left her feeling that she would never rely on a man or put trust in a relationship.  Seeing her mother work hard for her family and learning that life is hard but is what we decide to make of it, she worked 3 jobs to put herself through college.  She met John who drew trust out of her and helped her to believe in real love that could last a lifetime.  After one year of marriage and seven years together they were getting ready to break ground on their property to build a home when John was stung by a bee.  Tanya shares the heartbreaking events of losing him and the conflicting emotions of helping to transport his harvested heart in a cooler to an airplane bound for New York to help save someone else’s life.  She tells of the days and years ahead full of hope, support, but also self-destruction, and not wanting to go on without him.  She shares what she began to do to heal and to learn to trust her inner self to step into who she was meant to be. She explains her term for widows as keepers of the flame and helps them and others to understand that the loss and love is never going to leave and they will never get over it but they can embrace their story and they can find love again.  She explains how it is possible for her to love her first husband and now love her second husband.  She tells of her experience on the 10th anniversary of her first husband’s passing and how she was able to look back at her broken self and see who she has become and how important it is that we acknowledge and take pride in seeing what we’ve overcome.  Listen and be inspired to began again and see beauty in our brokenness.

Want to know if this episode it for you?  This episode is perfect for someone who has lost someone they love, especially a spouse and is looking for support, hope, and evidence that love is possible again.  It is also perfect for anyone who is looking for a new beginning, who is wanting to heal, and is ready to make a choice to make life what they want out of it.  It is also perfect for someone wanting to understand the widow’s heart and how it is possible to love more than once.

What is this episode about?   In this episode you will learn about:

* why Tanya left being an executive at a multimillion dollar company to begin her own marketing company to support entrepreneurs build their dreams and why she began A Widow’s World

* putting yourself out there and being so vulnerable and why hitting publish can be so scary

* how Tanya learned that no one is going to hand us a thing, we really have to put out what we want to get

* Tanya’s lesson to get comfortable with the uncomfortable and how every next level of yourself will demand a new you, a better you, and a more learned & attuned you

* how she grew up in small midwest town with a graduating class of 18

* how at the age of 13 parents’ marriage unraveled and how she felt like she was the one that needed to hold things together

* how her mom worked really hard and rooted them in belief system and faith

* how Tanya pushed through her independence and learned that life is hard but its what we decide to make of it

* John, her high school sweetheart and how he drew trust out of her because after her dad left thad thought would never rely on a man or put trust in a relationship

* how John made her believe in real love that could last a lifetime

* Tanya and John being together for 7 years, including married for one